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The Down Low

The Official Magazine of the Castrol Toyota Racing Series

2019 Preparation
has begun

Issue 07 — April 2018

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Newsroom—Toyota Racing New Zealand

Super Licence Points

Newsroom—Toyota Racing New Zealand

Rebuilding the Cars

Newsroom—Toyota Racing New Zealand

Test Car new livery unveiled

Newsroom—Toyota Racing New Zealand

Toyota Festival in Highlands Park

Newsroom—CTRS Alumni

.All the news from our 2018 CTRS Alumni.

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~ Super Licence Points ~

During the FIA World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) held in
Geneva on March 9th 2018, it has been decided to include the
Castrol Toyota Racing Series into the table of points.

Therefore, the top 5 drivers in the championship standing
will be awarded with the following points :

1st : 7 pts
2nd : 5 pts
3rd : 3 pts
4th : 2 pts
5th : 1 pt

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~ What is a Super Licence ?~

The FIA Super Licence is a qualification allowing the licence-
holder to compete in the Formula One World Championship as a
driver.

In order to get that qualification there are some criteria :
- The driver must be at least 18 years old at the start

of the event of his first F1 race weekend.
- The first time he applies for a Super Licence, the

driver must have completed at least 80% of each of two full
seasons of any of the single-seater Championships listed by the
FIA (of which TRS is now one).

- Have accumulated at least 40 points during the three
-year period preceding their application (the results of
a maximum of 2 championships can be accumulated in a single
calendar year).

Lance Stroll, 2015 TRS Champion

Brendon Hartley, 2005-2006 TRS Alumni

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~ Time to rebuild ~

The chequered flag on February 12th in Manfeild
has concluded the 14th season of the
Castrol Toyota Racing Series but has started the preparation of
the cars for the 2019 season.

Cars have been back in the Toyota Racing New Zealand
workshop at the Hampton Downs circuit from the 17th February
to undergo a full dismantle and rebuild for the upcoming season.

Each car will be pulled apart, checked and rebuilt.
All the engines will be rebuilt and pass a dynamometer
check before getting fitted again on the cars.
All the gearboxes will be entirely pulled apart, checked and
rebuilt.
This preparation and regular updates on the cars will
be performed from March to December with the shakedown of
the 20 cars being scheduled for December 10th and 11th.

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Cars being pulled apart to undergo full Bell housing being checked
check between season

Gearboxes being completed dismounted,
differential checked and gear ratios in-
spected.

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~ New livery for

As part of communicating on
Toyota Racing Series, “Fin
World Champion”, the Test Car fe

Picture was taken in front
facilities at Hampton Downs Moto

FT50 is the seco
of car introduced
a successful 10
FT40

TRS has been a step in the motorsport
career of several drivers who lead them
to the top ladder of motorsport such as
F1 (Kvyat, Stroll, Norris, Hartley), WEC
(Hartley, Bamber), Porsche (Van der
Drift), GT (Cassidy), Formula E (Lynn,
Evans) and more…

The only class in New Zealand motor-
sport that offers aspiring racers vital
experience with wings, slicks
and composite technologies, The
Castrol Toyota Racing Series
is Toyota’s commitment to nurturing
our next generation of top level racing
talent.

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r the Test Car ~ Proudly showing Toyota’s core value : Believe.

n the main target of the Castrol “We believe we can and will do great things.
nding New Zealand’s next We are a company driven by imagina-
eatures its new livery. tion, experimentation, humility, respect and
of Toyota Racing New Zealand innovation. And we believe it is people, our
orsport Park. people, who will go the extra mile to deliver to
our customers all that Toyota promises to be,
ond generation today and into the future. It's about integrity.”
d in 2015 after
years with the

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~ Toyota Festival ~

For the 7th year in a row, Toyota
New Zealand organized the Toyota Festival for all the kiwis
Toyota fans. It was an unique opportunity to share the love
of the #1 brand in New Zealand for the last 30 years.

This year, it was held at Highlands Motorsport Park in
Cromwell.

A lot of activities were organized :
- track sessions
- gymkhana
- show & shine competition
- simulator sessions
- pit stop contest
- hot laps in TR86
- a demo of the FT50 in its new livery

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Find out where our Castrol Toyota Racing Series 2018 Alumni are going to race this ye
Richard Verschoor, New Zealand Grand Prix winner, and Clement Novalak, Best Rook
and will fight against Charles Milesi who will race for R-Ace GP. Clement Novala
TRS Champion Robert Shwartzman who were team mates in New Zealand w
F3 European Championship. Juan Manuel Correa came here with his engineer to prep
Cameron Das will step up in different Championships, Brendon will be heading to the
slicks-and-wing series to focus on his Lamborghini Super Trofeo Challenge. And la
New Zealand among other racing...

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ear. Many of our drivers used TRS as prep aration for the upcoming motorsport season.
kie 2018, will be team mates in Josef Kaufmann Racing in Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0
ak will also compete in the British F3 Championship. Marcus Armstrong and 2018
who will still be team mates in Prema Powerteam and will compe te in the FIA
pare for his GP3 Series campaign. Victory Motor Racing team mates, Brendon Leitch and
e USA while Cameron will take part in the E uropean F3 Open. James Pull will leave the
ast but not least our veteran, Ken Smith, will s till take part in some F5000 race in

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Results…News…Results…News…Results…News…Results…N

6 CTRS Alumni are participating in this championship : Tatiana Straight after finishing
Calderon (TRS2011-2012), Pedro Piquet (TRS2014-2016-2017), was already back on tr
Ryan Tveter (TRS 2014), Nikita Mazepin (TRS 2015), Callum races in the Lamborghin
Ilott (TRS 2015) and Juan Manuel Correa (TRS 2018). There
has been already 4 test days held in Paul Ricard (France) and
Jerez (Spain). Next test is in Barcelona on April 17th-18th and
first Round is in May.

GP3 Test—Paul Ricard—February 20th-21th GP3 Test—Jerez—March 14th-15th

1 Antoine Hubert (ITA) 1:48.674 1 Leonardo Pulcini (ITA) 1:30.255
2 Callum Ilott (GBR) +0.1 3 Pedro Piquet (BRA) +0.2

4 Nikita Mazepin (RUS) +0.5 6 Tatiana Calderon (COL) +0.3

5 Tatiana Calderon (COL) +0.5 7 Callum Ilott (GBR) +0.3

10 Pedro Piquet (BRA) +1.0 12 Nikita Mazepin (RUS) +0.5

14 Ryan Tveter (USA) +1.2 14 Juan Manuel Correa (USA) +0.6 Having decided to com
15 Juan Manuel Correa (USA) +1.2 16 Ryan Tveter (USA) +0.7
Castrol Toyota Racing
returning season in U

track in Miami Homeste
He classified 5th overa
Round 01 in St Petersb
4th in Race 1 and 8th in

standings after round 0

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News…Results…News…Results…News…Results…News…Resu

the CTRS Season, James Pull
rack in Dubai where he won 2
ni Super Trofeo Middle East.

2 CTRS Alumni are taking part in this Series : Camer-
on Das (TRS 2018) and Christian Hahn (TRS 2017).
There has been already a race in the Winter Series or-
ganized in Paul Ricard and Cameron scored his first
podium (P3) in Race 2. In Race 1, he finished P5.
Christian was P8 and P13.

mpete in only 3 rounds of the
Series to prepare at best his

USF2000, Calvin was back on
ead on February 24th and 25th.
all for the 6 test sessions. At
burg Street Circuit, he finished
n Race 2. He’s 5th in the drivers
01.

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Results…News…Results…News…Results…News…Results…N

4 CTRS Alumni are participating in this championship : Richard
Verschoor (2017,2018), Charles Milesi (2018), Clement Novalak
(2018) and Thomas Neubauer (2017).

There has already been 4 test days held in Hockenheim
(Germany) and Paul Ricard (France).

Eurocup Test—Hockenheim—March 14th-15h Eurocup Test—Paul Ricard—March 28th-29h

1 Yifei Ye (CHN) 1:36.852 1 Yifei Ye (CHN) 2:00.992
3 Richard Verschoor (NED) +0.2 6 Richard Verschoor (NED) +0.2

7 Charles Milesi (FRA) +0.5 9 Charles Milesi (FRA) +0.4

14 Clement Novalak (GBR) +0.8 19 Clement Novalak (GBR) +1.2

18 Thomas Neubauer (FRA) +1.2 20 Thomas Neubauer (FRA) +1.2

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The FIA F3 European Championship is the series with the most TRS alumni :
almost half the field came to New Zealand to prepare themselves for their
challenge in the F3 series. 10 drivers from 2018 FIA F3 Series have chosen to
compete in the Castrol Toyota Racing Series in the past 3 years : Shwartzman
(2018), Armstrong (2017,2018), Daruvala (2016,2017), Habsburg
(2015,2016,2017), Ahmed (2017), Zhou (2016), Vaidyanathan
(2017), DeFrancesco (2017), Andres (2017) and Hanses (2015).

There have been 2 official tests already in Hungaroring and Red Bull Ring.

F3 Test—Hungaroring—March 22nd-23rd F3 Test—Red Bull Ring—March 26th-27rth

1 Mick Schumacher (GER) 1:34.304 1 Mick Schumacher (GER) 1:2.828
3 Marcus Armstrong (NZL) +0.1
2 Ferdinand Habsburg (AUT) +0.1

5 Guanyu Zhou (CHN) +0.2 7 Enaam Ahmed (GBR) +0.3

7 Enaam Ahmed (GBR) +0.2 8 Robert Shwartzman (RUS) +0.3

8 Jehan Daruvala (IND) +0.2 9 Guanyu Zhou (CHN) +0.3

9 Ferdinand Habsburg (AUT) +0.3 10 Marcus Armstrong (NZL) +0.4

11 Robert Shwartzman (RUS) +0.4 12 Jehan Daruvala (IND) +0.4

20 Ameya Vaidyanathan (IND) +0.8 18 Devlin DeFrancesco (CAN) +0.9

21 Devlin DeFrancesco (CAN) +1.0 19 Keyvan Soori Andres (IRA) +0.9

22 Keyvan Soori Andres (IRA) +1.1 20 Ameya Vaidyanathan (IND) +1.0

23 Julian Hanses (GER) +1.2 22 Julian Hanses (GER) +1.2

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Coming Next…
News of the off-season
Issue 08 released on May 5th

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